PLACE: Teatr Polski, Bielsko-Biała
TYPE OF PROJECT: theatrical performance
FUNCTION: director
OTHER CREATORS:
Text: Szymon Bogacz, Zuzanna Bućko Set and costume design: Justyna Elminowska Musical arrangement: Szymon Bogacz Stage movement: Jarosław Staniek Cast: Jagoda Krzywicka, Sławomir Miska, Jadwiga Grygierczyk, Barbara Guzinska, Jerzy Dziedzic, Grzegorz Margas, Daria Polasik-Bułka, Oriana Soika, Michał Czaderna, Adam Myrczek, Marta Gzowska-Sawicka, Maria Suprun, Piotr Gajos, Kazimierz Czapla, Zofia Schwinke, Tomasz Lorek, Grzegorz Sikora
PREMIERE: December 2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHOW:
The characters of „Night and Days” are clinging to some points of reference, lasting values – different for each of them – but this hunger is by no means satisfied. The search ends with the processing of successive clichés, an inept attempt to reproduce them. The clichés are treated literally in the play.The Bielski performance consists of a series of familiar images, those that are stuck in almost everyone’s imagination, although we may not necessarily know where they came from or what their meaningful context is. This procedure is meant to reveal the mechanism that runs through the thinking of the play’s characters, but also of ourselves: it is the seductive images, not any truth, that subjugate thought processes and memory, that arrange reality into one story or another.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:
In Julia Mark’s play (…) the characters meet at the bottom of a dried-up lake, where Barbara’s (Jagoda Krzywicka) beloved nenufars may have once grown. And the godlike narrative? The creators play up the insurgent history with taste, recreating frames from paintings by Grottger and Chelmonski in the opening scene of the play. However, there is a lot of longing here. The characters, immersed in melancholy, in Justyna Elminowska’s delightful costumes, are in constant remembrance. Only the poor peasants, due to the plague, communing with death every day, seem to believe in the „here and now”. The first part is crowned with an excellent scene. The characters allow themselves a moment of honesty. Barbara dreams of the romantic times of the uprising, Michasia longs for the life of the metropolis, although her husband longs for a secluded home. While Bogumil craves Barbara’s love. Their desires will not be satisfied, as they all long for a world that never existed (…)
Michal Centkowski
FESTIVALS
Festival of New Theater in Rzeszow 2016
AWARDS
Main Award for Justyna Elminowska for the engaging and consistent visual vision of the play „Nocami i dniami będę tęsknic za Tobą”.at the 2016 Festival of New Theater in Rzeszow, Poland
Nomination to the Golden Mask for 2015 for Jagoda Krzywicka for the role of Barbara Niechcic in the acting – female role category